Fertilizer-distributer



(No Model.)

E. s. SWEAT. FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTER.

- .To aZZ whom it may concern:

1o j'ect of the invention is to accelerate the feed whichthe pins f pass when brought downward upon UNITED STATES ELIAS S. SWEAT, OF FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA.

PATENT OFFICE.

FERTILIZER-DISTRIBUTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,672, dated September 21, 188B.

Application filed June 22, 1886. Serial No. 205,9l3. (No model.)

Be it known that I, ELIAS S. SWEAT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fayetteville, in the .county of Fayette and State of Georgia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fertilizer-Distributers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to machines for distributing fertilizers upon the soil; and the obof the fertilizing material from the hopper, to break up any hardened substances in the material, and to generally facilitate the operation of the machine, as well as to simplify its construction.

To the above purposes the invention consists in certain peculiar and novel features of construction and arrangement, as hereinafter described and claimed.

In order that the invention may be fully understood, I will proceed to describe it with reference to the accompanying drawings, in

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved fertilizer-distributer, the contiguous carryingwheel being removed. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, the feeding-hopper being tilted back. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view. Fig. 4 illustrates a modification of the invention, as hereinafter described. Fig. 5 is a detached view of the slide-operating n1echanisn1.-

In the said drawings, A designates the base or carrying portion ofthe machine.

B designates the hopper, and O designates the feeding-trough.

The carrying-frame A is formed with an opening, a, across which are arranged asuitable number of parallel bars, D.

E designates the axle of the machine, formed with a cylindrically-enlarged section, e, so that as the axle revolves its cylindrical section is rotated. In this cylinder are placed a circular series of pins, f, arranged in circular series around the cylinder. At either side of the series of pins f are arranged a double series of pins, f, which are disposed in two parallel series extending spirally around the cylinder, all of said pins, when brought uppermost relative to the cylinder, extending somewhat through between the bars D. The trough O is formed with a slot or opening, 0, through which the cylinder. This opening 0 is regulated with or entirely closed by a slide, F, the upper ends of which are each provided with a pin, f extending upward through suitable slots in the carrying-frame of the machine. The upper ends of these bolts are connected by a U shaped bail, f which in turn is engaged by the bifurcated lower end of a lever, G, mounted pivot:

ally upon the side of the hopper B. A guiderod, f, extends laterally from the slide, and through an eye or staple, f, on the trough which forms the bottom of the hopper, and it will be seen that the driver may readily move the slide backward and forward upon the trough by the required movements of the lever G.

As shown in the drawings, the hopper is separable from the carrying-frame, and is held thereon by pins 1), passing rearwardly beneath suitable staples, 1), upon the rear portion of the carrying-frame. At its front portion the hop per is held by hooks b engaging suitable staples,'e*, upon the carrying-frame. Instead of forming the bars D upon the carrying-frame, as heretofore described, they may be formed upon a suitable supplemental frame, which is to be dropped into the hopper, said frame being shown in Fig. 4.

From the above description it will be seen.

that as the axle and its cylindrical portion revolve, the pins ff will be carried with the cylindrical portion of the axle and pass between the immovable bars D, to act upon and break up any hard substances which may be mixed with the fertilizer, and that the series f of the pins will feed the fertilizer from either end of the trough toward the opening 0 thereof, and that the series of pins f will force the fertilizer out through the said openings. Should any solid substances, however, pass through the said trough and become clogged in the opening of said trough, they may be immediately broken up and moved out through the opening by the above-described operation of the slide F.

This machine is also designed to be used as a seeder, and when so used covering-arms of any suit-able construction are to be attached to 1. The combination, in a fertilizerdistriblt ter, of a hopper provided with a suitable opening in its bottom for the passage of the material, the parallel transverse bars D, rigidly held in the hopper above the bottom thereof, and a rotating axle arranged in the hopper beneath the bars D, and provided with a series of radial teeth, f, at its center, arranged in line with each other around the periphery of the axle and immediately above the opening in. the hopper-bottom, and the series of radial spirally-arranged feeding-teeth f on opposite sides of the teeth f, all of the teeth Working in between the bars D, substantially as described, for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, in a i'ertilizer-distrilnitel, with a slotted earrying-l'rame and a hopper having a slotted bottom, of a cut-off slide, F, bearing against the said bottom of the hopper, the pins or studs secured to the extremities of the slide and passing through the slots in the frame, a bail secured to the said studs, and a lever connected with the bail for shiftin the same and the slide, substantially as described, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own. I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ELIAS SYVEAT.

Witnesses:

A. E. SToKEs, D. M. FRANKLIN. 

